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26 Feb, 6 tweets, 1 min read
There's gotta be a better way. 🤦‍♂️
I guess I'm supposed to watch this page until my turn comes, at which point I have 10 mins to click "Yes"? Insanity.
LOL this was SO WEIRD and DYSFUNCTIONAL. So when my time in the queue came up, it logged me out! When I frantically tried to log back in, it said it couldn't find my email address. Then I read the red error text closely...
...and it said if you're having trouble logging in, try appending ".aph" to the end of your email address. So I appended ".aph" to the end of my gmail address, and it let me in! What on earth?
Anyway, I went back through the questionnaire I had already filled out for eligibility (at this point I was sure I'd have to start over in the queue), but then boom: it gives me some time/location options. So I pick on, and suddenly I'm all set.
The whole thing was absolutely mystifying. I don't know that I've used a piece of software that bad in a long time.

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25 Feb
Chez Stokes pandemic boardgame update: me and the two youngest girls (7yo & 9yo) are playing Too Many Bones, by @ChipTheoryGames. So far, 👍👍 & once the oldest finishes the last Harry Potter book she'll be joining us on our next adventure. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1921…
The game is a little complex, but the kids aren't really having any trouble managing any of it. I credit this to their prodigious consumption of all things Pokemon and Zelda, which has them thinking in terms of stats, buffs, debuffs, strategies, etc.
My kids will have lost a year of school, but they will be experts in boardgames, Zelda BOTW, Portal Knights, and Harry Potter. Also, my LOTR Extend Edition ploy was a smashing success, so hopefully we're headed into a Tolkien phase, as well.
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24 Feb
Random thoughts on this long post, which I skimmed because, well, more on that in a sec. (Screencap for the blocked, like me).
Ok, I briefly interrupt this thread on Substack to bring you a creep, creepy Twitter ad that popped up on my screen after I pasted in that tweet link with a Substack link in it. Odd. Ok, moving on...
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14 Feb
I talked some smack about @CadeMetz earlier on CH, so I'll go ahead & summarize that publicly because I am not a baby & we ain't playing bean-bag, here. I probably should've left it alone, but I don't want ppl thinking I'll say stuff in a closed CH that I won't say in public.
So, Metz came to WIRED while I was there running this blog called Cloudline, which was about cloud computing. It was nerdy, & not very popular. I was trying to do an Ars-style deep dive thing, but with "cloud", & kinda flailing but also it just wasn't catching on.
I had left Ars after our sale for various reasons, was burnt out on media but afraid to try anything else. So I jumped to WIRED for a bit, but I was struggling. Running around Sand Hill Road, trying to get ppl to talk to me about the nerdy guts of cloud stuff. Results were meh.
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13 Feb
I was thinking of a good way to make this same point, following on this earlier tweet of mine:

I think that fussing over why the NYT has done this, & how we can fix it, etc. is pointless, now. Don't mend it; work to end it.
This is where I'm essentially on the same page as @balajis, who was quoted (out of context) in the hit piece. The game has changed. We're in a cultural knife fight in a phone booth. Reduce your attack surface, & go on the offense when you can. Don't let them play by special rules
There are some folks at the NYT I really like, but as an institution, those of us who don't sing from the Brooklyn Hymnal have to recognize that we have an enemy in the institution itself -- regardless of what we think of certain writers. And we have to treat it as a threat.
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13 Feb
What does "HAN" mean?
Per his suggestion, I looked it up in urban dictionary. It appears he has paid me a compliment! Either that or it's something about anime.
Ah, I finally figured it out! The answer is in a book on Pentecostalism written by my old grad school advisor, the late Harvey Cox. I KNEW I remembered this word from somewhere. This man is calling me an angry, vengeful spirit form Korea!
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13 Feb
Played a 5 player game of Nemesis with my three kids and a friend, and it was the most fun I’ve had gaming since high school D&D. Incredible game, and the kids loved it, too. “It’s like being in a movie” said the 9yo.
There are a lot of rules, so I basically ran the game as a kind of DM. But the kids grasped the mechanics really well. The only rough spot was at the end, when the 9yo & I thought we’d competed out objectives & were safely in hybersleep for the jump to warp...
Only to find that the 13yo had sabotaged
an engine early on in the game, causing the ship to explode & kill us at the end. It was ice cold, man. She and the 7yo got away safely in an escape pod.
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